Helensburgh, NSW - Holy Cross Catholic

History and Architecture:

From the Churches website an extract reads, "In an old ledger of the Bulli Parish on 13 April 1893 the opening of the Church of Holy Cross at Helensburgh was recorded. Construction took place in two stages, the first commencing in 1890. It is on record that the church cost approximately £150. It was a timber and weatherboard building on the corner of Parkes Street and the service lane behind the current church.

Before the current church was started, the old church was moved across the new site to the school grounds where it continued to be used for worship until the opening of the new church. Bishop W. Murray performed the blessing of the new site and laying of the Foundation Stone on 9 August, 1986".

A Foundation stone reads, " This Foundation stone was blessed and laid by the Most Rev W.E. Murray DD D SSc Bishop of Wollongong 9th August 1986 Fr F. Fuhlendorf P.P. ".